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P. HUBERT. SIGNALING APPARATUS.

Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

E5 M M Q O. c H U H U H U H U PM? r 2 H U H U U U NITED STATES,

PHILIP G. HUBERT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SIGNALING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,954, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed June 4, 1897- Serial No. 639,414. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHILIP G. HUBERT, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Signaling Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in signaling apparatus for hotels in which provision is made for presenting a visual signal exterior to a room to locate the particular room of a set of rooms simultaneously with the signaling, sounding, or setting, or both, of a signal at a distance to call attention to the set of rooms where the visual signal is set.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a portion of a hotel or other building in which there are several floors or stories, one or more of which are provided with a plurality of rooms, showing the signaling apparatus in position for use; and Fig. 2 represents an enlarged view in detail, showing a partial section from the inner to the outer side of a Wall at the point where the visual signal and the means for operating it are located.

The partial. representation of a building shown in Fig. 1 maybe assumed to represent a portion of three hallways, the floors of which are denoted, respectively, by A A A the second and third stories above the floors A A representing the fronts of two rooms each adjacent to the hallways and the story on the floor A representing one room adjacent to the hallway. It is to be understood that each hallway or story may have any number, of rooms instead of the particular number here shown. The rooms on the floor A are denoted by a. The rooms on the floor A are denoted by a, and the rooms on the floor A? are denoted by a In the front wall of the room or in that wall of the room which is ex posed to a passage-way along which the attendant would pass in coming to the room there is mounted on the inside, as is usual, a push-button B, which may be either mechanically, pneumatically, or electrically connected witha signal inthe office, in the present instance electrically connected with a signal in the office, the ofiice being represented by O.

In connection with the push-button B there is a plunger b, which operates upon one arm ofa trip 7 lever b, pivotally secured at 11 within a recess 5 in the wall. The trip-lever b is adapted ,to normally hold a gravity-signal D within a recess E in the-wall, the said signal D being in the present instance pivoted at d in position to when set free swing outwardly to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 and held normally concealed within the recess E by means of a shoulder d on the edge of the signal, which is adapted to rest on a shoulder 12 on the lever 19. The lever b is pressed normally toward the outer face of the wall in position to catch the signal D by means of a spring 19 When the button B is pushed to close the contact to sound the signal in the office 0, it serves at the same time to slide the plunger 6 against the arm of the trip-lever b, which swings its spring-pressed end away from the signal D, permitting the latter to swing under the influence of gravity outwardly from the wall into the position shown in dotted lines and show itself to a person passing along the hallway.

Each of the push-buttons B in the several rooms d composing the group which may consist of all the rooms along a hallway, is in communication with a common signal in the office, denoted in the present instance by the numeral 3, which would signify the withthe drawings requires no special description', as it may be of any well-known or approved form suitable for the purpose. It

.will be observed, however, that instead of a signal and a corresponding electric circuit for each room on each of the stories my present invention provides for one signal, and hence one general electric connection for each of several rooms which may be located along a hallway on one or more of the several floors.

Inoperation the intelligence conveyed to the office will be simply that one of the rooms on the first, second, third, or other floor is calling for attention, and the hall-boy or other attendant as soon as he reaches the hallway where the group of rooms signaled is located notices which of the several rooms has the signal D set and immediately determines by that signal the particular room from which the signal was sent. This arrangement materially reduces the complications in hotels having hundreds of rooms, and it is of even more account in saving the annoyance to which guests are often subjected by repeated inquiries at their door asking Whether they did or did not call, the confusion having been such because of the many calls that the signal at the ofiice was misunderstood.

lVhat I claim is The combination with a visual signal supported to swing into operative position under the influence of gravity, of a spring-actuated lever for holding the said visual signal concealed, a plunger for operating said lever, a push-button for operating the plunger, a signal located at a distance from the said visual signal and means under the control of the push-button for operating said distance-signal simultaneously with the operation of the said plunger, substantially as set forth.

PHILIP G. IIUBERT.

\Vitnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, EDWARD VIESER. 

